Self-presence requires an internal separation that is itself nothing

Evidence

But how can this specular structure be understood in logical terms? Divine self-presence is interrupted, or rather opened up, by an inner distance. We can interpret this through the concept of the substance-subject and its movement, a movement in which God negates himself as immediate and substantial power, positing himself as other in the Incarnation which sees his birth as ‘subject’, before returning in the form of singularity to absolute substance. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 858 (#expands, via linked claim)

The presupposition common to both idealism and realism is that the constituting negation is an external negation. The Other is the one who is not me and the one who I am not. This not indicates a nothingness as a given element of separation between the Other and myself. Between the Other and myself there is a nothingness of separation. This nothingness does not derive its origin from myself nor from the Other, nor is it a reciprocal relation between the Other and myself. On the contrary, as a primary absence of relation, it is originally the foundation of all relation between the Other and me. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 675 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Selfness means man is always separated from himself by being — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 213; Intentions constitute themselves as empty through self-conscious negation — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 230; The self discovers itself only in situation and must alone sustain all values (+14 more)

Broader Connections

• Divine self-presence is opened up by an internal distance rather than merely broken #expands (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 858
• The nothingness separating self and Other precedes and founds all relation #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 675
• The self forms only through engagement with that which denies its unity #complicates (0.75)